Is Robert Carlyle leaving the show after this season?

[haliwellmanor]

I wonder if Robert Carlyle is going to leave the show after this season? I just couldn’t imagine  Rumple going back to business as usual at his shop once the Queens of Darkness story line ends.

[RumplesGirl]

No one knows for sure but many people have speculated that Bobby is not as enthusiastic as he once was about OUAT and that he’s either tired or “over it.” It has come across in his acting as of late.

However, it’s not really fair to speculate on too much because it involves digging up rumors from set that are, at the end of the day, rumors. If he is not returning then we will know by season end

"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"

[Josephine]

There are set rumors floating about but ignoring them and just going storywise….

What is there left for Rumple?  His curse broken?  He’s cleaved from the dagger?  While I might thing a human Rumple story line would be fantastic and interesting from a character study POV, the show is about action and twists and plot.  They’re not going to dig into the psychological ramifications of giving up the DO curse.

So what is his potential future:

1) Remain DO and continue on his evil path:  We’ve been there, done that.  They made us love Rumple in Season one by it being this fight of a parent willing to go to any lengths for their child.  It was fantastic and humanized this monster and all his motivations.  Keeping him evil for evil’s sake isn’t true to his original character.

2) Happy ever after with Belle without the  curse:  While this is my preferred method of his story, it probably won’t happen.  They’ve said before happy couples = boring tv.  Although they are writers, they haven’t quite gotten the grasp of internal conflict vs. external conflict.  And they’re not going to start now.

3) Die:  Either a heroic death (yet again a rehash of 3a) or another method.  He’s been living for centuries and his reason for living that long was to find his son.  Which he did, and lost him.  Even if they’d keep  him and Belle together, he’s immortal.  He will outlive her.  That isn’t a romantic tale.  It’s tragic.

So what direction will they go?  Many of you know my ending to the season. I think it’s a combo of 2 and 3.  His DO curse is going to be lifted with TLK from Belle and then he dies.

If Season five is the end, like many of us predict, they can afford to let Bobby go.  They’re not as dependent on ratings for their final season, ad time has already been purchased, and they have a little more freedom with their story.  They can kill him off, do their big Aladdin thing since it’s having it’s Diamond Release in October and maybe bring back Naveen Andrews (a big draw for some)  for 5a and then conclude the series in 5b.

Of course we could all be wrong and Bobby is in it for the long haul.

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